Igniter for cigar-lighters.



No. 832,947. PATENTBD 00T. 9, 190e.

G. s. ANDREWS. IGNITER PQR GIGAR LIGHTERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.11,1905.

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GEORGE S. ANDREWS, oE BUTLER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IGNITER FOR ClGAR-LIGHTEBS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Applatll flied September 11,1905. Serial No. 277.908.

To all whom/ it may concern):

Be it known that I, GEORGE S.- ANDREWS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Butler, in the county of Butler and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Igniter for Cigar-Lighters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to cigar-lighting devices in which a' torch is lighted at will by an electrical spark and the flame of the torch used to light the cigar.

The object of the invention is to provide a reliable electrical sparking device by means of which the torch may be ignited, and I attain this end by certain peculiar .features of construction, which will be fully set forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate as an example the preferred embodiment of my invention, and in which- Figure 1 is a front viewv of the complete apparatus with a part thereof in section. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the interior of the upper part of the device. Fig. 3 is a detail section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4is a diagrammatic view showing the circuit.

The cigar-lighter has a frame or stand 10, having tubular arms 11, terminating in cups 12, and, if desired, a centrally-disposed pedestal 14, carrying a cu 15, which may be used as a toothpick-hol er, if desired. Within the frame or stand 1() is a tank 16, adapted to contain gasolenev or other inflammable oil. This tank communicates by a union 17 with the arms 11,and extending from within the tank outward through both arms are wicks 18, which by capillary attraction carry the infiammable hydrocarbon to the ends of the wicks within the cups, 12.

19 indicates the torches, which have metal Shanks carrying a mass of absorbent fibrous `material 20. This material is preferably noncombustible, such as asbestos; but it may be made of ordinary. wicking, if so desired.

Normally the torches are rested in the cups, as shown in Fig. 1, and the absorbent m'aterial 20 of the torches contacts with the ends of the wicks 18', thus saturatingthe absorbent material 2() from the infiammable oil furnished to the wicks. Therefore upon igniting the oil of the torches a flame may be produced from which the cigar may be lighted.

Contained in the base of the stand 10 is a battery 21, which is preferably of thedry type. 22 indicates a spark-coil, which is also located in the basevof the stand. The battery 21 is in connection by means of a wire 23 with two flanges 24, which stand out from metal plates 25, secured to a panel or insulation 26, which is in turn secured withinV an orifice or opening 27 lin the front ofthe stand 10, as shown best in Fig. 3. Said panel 26 has a vertically-disposed slot 28 therein, and through this slot the sparking fingers 29 project. Said sparking fingers are formed on or attached to rocker-bars 30,.Which are carried in the flanges 24, and the sparking fingers are yieldingly sustained by means of springs 31, which are engaged with t'he flanges 24 and with the fingers, as illustrated, these springs holding the fingers in the position shown in Fig. 2 and allowing them to be swung downward slightly and engaged by the'torch, as will be fully set forth hereinafter. Secured over the insulating-panel 26 is a metallic plate 32, which has a slot .33 therein substantially matching the slot 2S in the panel 26. Said metallic plate 32 is ribbed on each side of the slot, as indicated at 34, and the ribs are diverged at their upper ends, so as to form a guide for the torch, which in operation should be drawn downward along the plate 32 between the ribs 34. Said plate 32 is in connection by a wire 35 with a sparkcoil 22, and the spark-coil is in connection with the battery by a'wire 36. It will be seen that the circuit is normally open, the terminals being the plate 32 and the fingers 29. The torch should be drawn down along the plate and caused successively to engage the sparking fingers, the fingers swinging downward and then snapping quickly away from the torch. The metallic plate of the torch serves to complete the circuit between the plate and the sparking fingers, and a succession of sparks is produced at the ends of the sparking points,` these sparks serving to ignite the inflammable oil absorbed in the mass 20 of the torch. Therefore it may be seen that in order to procure a lightit is only necessary for the operator to take one of the torches in his hand and draw the same down IOO ' mally open electrical circuit, one terminal of ing guiding-ribs extending along the sides of ing a rib at each side of the slot and said ribs along the plate 32, engaging the sparking` lingers as the torch-is moved, and the sparks thereby produced igniting the oil.

Having thus described the preferred form of my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An igniter for torches having a normally open electrical circuit, one terminal of l Which is formed by a slotted plate and the other terminal of which is formed by a yieldingly-sustained sparking finger projected through the slot in the plate, said plate havthe slot.

2. An igniter for torches having a nor- Which is formed by a slotted plate and the other terminal of which is formed by a yieldinglysustained sparking finger projected through the slot in the plate, said plate havdiverging from each other at one end of the same, for the pur ose specified.

3. An igniter or torches having normally open electrical circuit, one terminal of Which is formed by a slotted metallic plate and the other terminal of Which-is formed by a sparking inger projected through the slot in the plate, an insulating-panel located at one side of the slotted plate and having a slot therein matching the slot in the plate,` and means for yieldingly supporting said sparking finger on the panel.

4. An igniter for torches having normally open electrical circuit, one terminal of which is formed by a slotted metallic plate and the other terminal of Which is formed by a sparking ringer projected through the slot in the plate, an insulating-panel located at one side of the slotted plate and having a slot therein opposite the slot in the plate, and means for yeldingly supporting said sparking finger on the panel, said means comprising flanged plates secured to the panel, and a rocker-bar mounted on said flanged plates and supporting the sparking iinger.

In testimony Whereolc I have signed my name to thisspecification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE S. ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

M. A. BERKIMER, L. P. WALKER.- 

